When you're in the business of selling tokens - you look at technology that reduces that as a threat. If they were selling services that USE tokens, then reducing them would be welcome... so they'll likely steal this and incorporate it into their proprietary CLIs like claude code...
Anthropic sells api tokens - until they released claude code the only way to use claude for coding was via api tokens in something like cursor or cline.
Exactly. They don't make money on Claude Code directly, so it's not in their interest to make it use fewer tokens (which are what they make their profit on).
